Motivational Quotes

Courage

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

- Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

10.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

12.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

15.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

16.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

20.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

21.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

22.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

23.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

25.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

26.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

27.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

28.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

29.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

30.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

31.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

34.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

35.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

36.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther